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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2005
Peter C. M. Van Zijl, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Jinyuan Zhou, Timonium, MD (US);
Peter C. M. Van Zijl, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Jinyuan Zhou, Timonium, MD (US);
Other;
Abstract
A magnetic resonance method for imaging blood volume in parenchyma via magnetic transfer (MT) includes: determining a MT effect of parenchyma; determining a MT effect of tissue; and quantifying the parenchymal blood volume using the difference between the MT effect of parenchyma and the MT effect of tissue. In one embodiment, the parenchymal blood volume is quantified through the following: MTR=MTR(1−BV/V), where MTRis the magnetization transfer ratio of parenchyma, MTRis the magnetization transfer ratio of tissue, BV is the blood volume, and Vis a total parenchymal water volume.